Background

Mr. Antoine Willem van Agtmael serves as the President and Chief Investment Officer of Emerging Markets Investors Corporation. He serves as the Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager at Ashmore EMM, L.L.C. Mr. van Agtmael founded Ashmore EMM, L.L.C. and is responsible for country allocation and overall maintenance of investment standards. Mr. van Agtmael was a Founding Partner at Strategic Investment Partners, Inc. Mr. van Agtmael served as the Chairman ... of the Board, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at The Emerging Markets Strategic Fund. He served as the President and Chief Investment Officer at Africa Emerging Markets and Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at SEI Institutional International Trust - Emerging Markets Equity Fund. Mr. van Agtmael served as the Deputy Director of the Capital Markets Department at International Finance Corporation, as the Division Chief in the treasury operations at The World Bank, the Managing Director at Thai Investment and Securities Company Ltd., and as a Vice President and International Lending Officer at Bankers Trust Company. He serves as a Director at Ashmore EMM, L.L.C., Strategic Investment Partners, National Public Radio, Inc., Emerging Markets Investors Corporation, Emerging Markets Management Company (Ireland) Limited and Strategic Investment GroupSM. He serves as a Director of The Emerging Markets Strategic Fund, Africa Emerging Markets Fund, and Emerging Markets New Economy Fund, PLC. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Eurasia Group, Ltd. He serves as a Trustee at The Brookings Institution. He is a Board Member of the International Human Rights Law Group. He is a Member on the National Advisory Council for the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. Mr. van Agtmael serves on the Board of Trustees of The Lab School of Washington. He is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Washington Opera. He served as a Member of the Board of Directors at India Growth Fund, Inc. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Council of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is a Member of the Committee on Undergraduate Student Services and the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University. He was an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and taught at the International Management Institute in Geneva, Harvard University Institute of Politics and Thammasat University, Bangkok. He is the author of “The Emerging Markets Century“(Simon and Schuster, January 2007) and “Emerging Securities Markets“(Euromoney, 1984) and Co-editor of “The World's Emerging Stock Markets“ (Probus Publishing, 1992). Mr. van Agtmael holds an M.B.A. from the New York University, an M.A. degree in Russian and Eastern European Studies from the Yale University, and a B.A. degree in Economics from The Netherlands School of Economics at Erasmus University.

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